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- Thanks to all who came to @carbonfive hack night #LA tonight! Great #nodejs talk by @rudy and @sivoh. Probably 25 folks still hacking... 3 weeks ago
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The RSpec Book defines outside-in Rails development as starting with views and working your way in toward the models. By developing from the outside in, you are always taking a client perspective at each layer of the application. The end … Continue reading
Last week we had a lively discussion about Agile development at Carbon Five. It was fun telling the story of how we got started with Agile nearly a decade ago. We discussed how it helps us deliver value and deal … Continue reading
We just wrapped up the first phase of a project for ITVS, the Independent Television Service, and want to share the experience. We built OVEE, the online video engagement experience, on a short schedule with a small team. OVEE is … Continue reading
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Last month, cucumber-rails 1.1 was released. This release removed web_steps.rb, a collection of step definitions for interacting with a web app. For months, web_steps.rb contained a warning of its negative effects on feature maintenance. Like most developers, I ignored the … Continue reading
The daily standup is the “Hello World” of agile development. It’s a daily, 15-minute meeting, about the current status of a project. Each participant answers three questions: what did I do yesterday, what am I doing today, what is in … Continue reading
One of the most popular features of TextMate and RubyMine is Command-T, the ability to jump to a file with just a couple of keystrokes. Vim lacks this feature out of the box, leaving Vim newcomers less efficient. For the … Continue reading
To edit efficiently in Vim, you have to edit beyond individual characters. Instead, edit by word, sentence, and paragraph. In Vim, these higher-level contexts are called text objects. Vim provides text objects for both plaintext and common programming language constructs. … Continue reading
A commit, like a well-designed function or class, should represent a single concept. A distinct, cohesive commit is easy to understand, review, and, if necessary, revert. Git’s powerful staging area allows you to finely craft your commits. You decide which … Continue reading
The Ruby community’s obsession with testing is unrivaled. Over the years, Rubyists have gone from old school TDD using test/unit, to modern BDD with RSpec and finally to comprehensive integration testing, including JavaScript support, via Cucumber. The goal was tests … Continue reading
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On Tuesday night, the San Francisco Server Side JavaScripters had an excellent meetup hosted by the folks at CBS Interactive. I gave a short talk on using zombie.js with jasmine-node to test drive your node.js application under automation. Here is … Continue reading